RHS National Gardening Week 2015

West Dean Gardens is joining the Royal Horticultural
Society in celebrating National
Gardening Week (13 - 19 April). Launched four years ago by the
RHS it has grown into the UK's biggest celebration of gardening. On
National Gardens Open Day (Friday 17 April) visitors will be able
to explore the award-winning West Dean
Gardens. For this special day only the Gardens are offering
free entry for Adults. Children go FREE all year round.

"Now is the time at West Dean to see wonderful displays of
spring salad leaves in the vegetable frame and potted plants under
glass, perfect for keen grow-your-own gardeners everywhere, says
Sarah Wain, Gardens Supervisor at West Dean.
"The Victorian glasshouses are full of tropical
plants, ferns, orchids, and auriculas while outside, daffodils are
waving madly along with other seasonal bulbs and wildflowers."

Explore the award-winning Sunken Garden at the eastern end of the Edwardian Pergola, step into the Walled Garden
and admire the fruit trees coming into blossom amid a carpet of
primroses. The glasshouses will be showing new growth on the
peach, nectarines and vines and out in the Kitchen Garden see the first protected plantings
under cloches.